7.—(a) The amount applicable to them as a couple under regulation 86A or 86D for the relevant period prescribed in regulation 50(6B);
(b)for the first 4 weeks of that absence, the amount applicable to them as a couple under regulation 86A or 86D, as the case may be, and thereafter the amount applicable to the claimant in Northern Ireland under regulation 83 or 86, as the case may be, as if that claimant were a single claimant.